I am very worried for my 10 month old lavender Aracauna rooster who appears to be sick and hasn’t eaten in 3 days (at the time of writing). His symptoms are:
- frequently sneezing each day
- empty crop for 3 days and counting
- lethargy
- semi-hard mass found yesterday in rooster’s crop from...
Is it harmful for chickens to ingest traces of their own cecal poo that is at most a day old? Or, is it possible that is is completely harmless to them and is dominated by their own probiotics?